[JEANSELLEM VIEWER] — 10-29.03.1972 ÅKE EGEVAD — Categories: press, docs, letters — Keywords: Galerie S:t Petri, Jean Sellem, archive — Category: press — Trelleborgs Allehanda, 10 March 1972 (handwritten pencil annotation: “Trelleborgs Allehanda”) — An artist from Trelleborg exhibits in Lund.From 10 to 29 March, Gallery S:t Petri presents around twenty images by Åke Egevad (born in Trelleborg and now residing in Vittskøvle). These are shown in series of two to four images each. Social issues constitute the recurring theme. Protests against violence, lack of freedom, suppression of opinions, war, and prejudice are among the motifs that can be recognized in his work. Earlier exhibitions have dealt with the subject “Our rotten world – protest painting against violence and oppression.” Ironically, Åke Egevad titles his exhibition in Lund: Homo sapiens – the crown of creation. In order to visualize his ideas, he employs techniques such as gouache, watercolor, and collage. — — — Category: press — Arbetet, 18 March 1972 (handwritten pencil annotation: “18.3.72”) — Gallery S:t Petri, S:t Petri kyrkogata 5, open Monday–Friday 3–8 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 12–5 p.m. Åke Egevad works as a manual laborer for three months of the year; during the other months he makes images in order to “in the best case revive people’s bad conscience, in the worst case numb my own.” These are images dealing with imperialism in the world and fascism here and there. “Western cultural disseminator” is a skull; the person was killed by bullets that shot the words “we want peace US Army” into the forehead. Around it stand Coca-Cola bottles bearing the American flag: an altar of death. “… and they put boots on their feet” deals with the small law-and-order generals who crawled forward some time ago, when Arrabal’s play “They put handcuffs on the flowers” was to be staged at the Malmö City Theatre. In the center, Sven Stolpe raises his arm in a well-known manner; beside him stands Aron Borelius. On Saturdays at 6 p.m., the gallery hosts evenings of various kinds. Today: “German political poetry after 1945” – reading by Bernhard Modes. — — — Category: press — Skånska Dagbladet, 10 March 1972 (handwritten pencil annotation: “SkD 10.3.72”) — Protest painting at Gallery S:t Petri. From 10 to 29 March, Gallery S:t Petri presents around twenty images by Åke Egevad (born in Trelleborg in 1947, residing in Vittskövle). These are shown in series of two to four images each. Social issues constitute the recurring theme. Protests against violence, lack of freedom, suppression of opinions, war, and prejudice are among the motifs recognizable in his work. Earlier exhibitions have addressed the subject “Our rotten world – protest painting against violence and oppression.” Ironically, Åke Egevad titles his exhibition in Lund “Homo sapiens – the crown of creation.” About his art he has said: I want, in the best case, to revive people’s bad conscience, in the worst case to numb my own. To visualize his ideas, he uses techniques such as gouache, watercolor, and collage — — — Category: press — Kristianstadsbladet, 17 March 1972 (handwritten pencil annotation: “Kristianstadsbladet 17.3.72”). Image caption: One of the images from the exhibition "The Crown of Creation". — Vittskövle protest. From 10 to 29 March, Gallery S:t Petri in Lund presents around twenty images by Åke Egevad (born in Trelleborg in 1947, residing in Vittskövle). These are shown in series of two to four images each. Social issues constitute the recurring theme. Protests against violence, lack of freedom, suppression of opinions, war, and prejudice are among the motifs recognizable in his work. Earlier exhibitions have addressed the subject “Our rotten world – protest painting against violence and oppression.” Ironically, Åke Egevad titles his exhibition in Lund Homo sapiens – The Crown of Creation. To visualize his ideas, he uses techniques such as gouache, watercolor, and collage. “In the best case I want to revive people’s bad conscience, in the worst case to numb my own,” he says — — — Category: press — Helsingborgs Dagblad, March 1972 (handwritten pencil annotation: “Helsingborgs Dagblad 11.3.72”) — ARTFrom 10 to 29 March, Gallery S:t Petri in Lund presents around twenty images by Åke Egevad (born in Trelleborg in 1947, residing in Vittskövle). These are shown in series of two to four images each. Social issues constitute the recurring theme. Protests against violence, lack of freedom, suppression of opinions, war, and prejudice are among the motifs recognizable in his work. Earlier exhibitions have dealt with the subject “Our rotten world – protest painting against violence and oppression.” Ironically, Åke Egevad titles his exhibition in Lund: Homo sapiens – the crown of creation. To visualize his ideas, he uses techniques such as gouache, watercolor, and collage. — — — Category: docs — Open letter by Åke Egevad to Viola Robertson, Lund, 27 March 1972. Author’s text responding to a critique of his exhibition at Gallery S:t Petri. — Lund, 27 March 1972.Open letter to Viola Robertson concerning her criticism of my images at Gallery S:t Petri.It is not paintings with titles that I show at Gallery S:t Petri, but poster series with text.You write that I attack politicians and the military. That is probably true. But above all I want to reach the people who allow themselves to be incited into sacrificing their lives for a country. The dutiful, loyal citizens who say: “Conscientious objectors are cowardly scum.”You write that I attack war and famine. Certainly, I protest against the United States’ Indochina war. But I attack the large group of so-called blind anti-communists who see the USA as an angel of peace and freedom and who say: “We should be grateful that the USA saves us from the communists.”I do not attack famine itself, but rather the fact that the best-fed in the richest country demand 30 percent more in wages so that we can live under human conditions, while thousands starve to death in a country far, far away.You write that I attack drugs and alcohol. Yes, certainly, but above all I attack the respectable Saturday drunks who think that “a proper binge now and then does not harm my soul.”It is these “respectable” bourgeois who are truly dangerous. The loyal, silent majority that bows and scrapes, gives thanks and accepts. And that stands to attention before a self-chosen authority: politicians, the military, Mammon, and art critics.Åke EgevadÅKE EGEVADBox 20290 15 Vittskövle0450 / 531 62 — — — Category: letters — Hand-drawn card by Åke Egevad, addressed to Jean Sellem, 1978 — Recto featuring a stylized portrait representing Jean Sellem, depicted wearing a Santa Claus hat. Handwritten inscription “Gott nytt år” (“Happy New Year” in Swedish) — Addressed to :Galerie S:t Petri, église S:t Petri 7, Lund. Suède, 75. 22101 LUND“I would gladly come and play medieval bagpipes sometime!” Åke Egevad, Ovesholm.